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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
Is there a...
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Is there a parson, much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross
Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Source: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 15
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.